sidongio123

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by sidongio123 3y ago
>BTW I think it’s utterly irrelevant whether someone “gets” PEMDAS or not. That’s not math. To the contrary, it belies a rote, formulaic way of thinking that is almost inimical to math. Being able to "get" PEMDAS in particular
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by sidongio123 3y ago
Names are not arbitrary in the least. They are deeply connected to history, family, religion, and ancient tradition. They are meaningful in just about every way a thing can be meaningful. You can consider those things unimportant, but socie
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by sidongio123 3y ago
So how do you measure productivity? I see no definition of "Developer Velocity" in this article or the linked ones, nor do I see an explanation of how it's measured, nor do I see any real attempt to prove its validity. They s
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by sidongio123 3y ago
The author is also a non-physicist, though he'd disagree with that characterization. He is a famous crackpot. Ask him to actually derive all of physics from these principles and he'd fail completely.
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by sidongio123 3y ago
>Trading off hundreds (thousands?) of people at US salaries for only a 10% impact in uptime is a sane business decision. A system with 90% uptime is a whole lot less than 90% as valuable as one with nearly 100% uptime. Twitter was pretty
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by sidongio123 3y ago
>This is the most common mistake the anti-Musk crowd makes. They fail to differentiate between a person being intelligent and having good self-control. They are not the same thing. "Smart" does not just mean "high intellig
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by sidongio123 3y ago
>Elon doesnt have that experience, and every mistake is at-scale. Several of his mistakes have, I am sure, been born out of ignorance. This is not a good explanation for his decisionmaking in general. Nearly everyone, whether in the indu